The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
Her Memories Were Very Mixed: My Mother's Early Years in Odessa
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Sophie Meld, a 98-year-old retired social worker, describes the city where her mother grew up: Odessa. She explains, too, the pogrom her mother endured, during which she narrowly escaped death, thanks to the efforts of a non-Jewish woman who let Jews take shelter in her home.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Sophie Meld and Murray Meld.
This excerpt is in English.
Sophie Meld was born in New York, New York in 1916.
Murray Meld was born in Daugavpils, Latvia in 1920.
